You know, thinking back to my time with Raquel I always seem to come away with a smile on my face and an erection in my jeans. That girl could make a dead man cum.
I was so sure she was the woman of my dreams, that she and I would spend the rest of our lives together. But that dream died just as fast as it was born. You see, she had problems, a lot of problems. She drank, she drove drunk, she took pills, she even tried to kill herself. And through all that, I stayed by her. She would dry out, she was great, she was loving, she was lucid and intelligent, and then she would go off the deep end again.
And those episodes were ugly and they occurred quite often. But I saw her for what she could easily become. The only thing stopping me from caring for her was the simple fact that I was already married.
My marriage was a farce, but I was faced with quite a dilemma. My wife made great money and we enjoyed a very comfortable lifestyle, while the real love of my life kept trying to self-destruct.
Then Raquel left. She vanished. One of her girlfriends and I tried for months to locate her, to no avail. And then one day, she called me. My heart leaped with joy, and I almost cried. Finally!! But she still sounded troubled. She had relocated to another state to enter some rehab facility (like there are no good ones around here!!) and she was trying to clean herself up. She was still a mess, but she assured me constantly that she was trying. But she offered up no hope of returning to me, and I was not about to abandon my current lifestyle for someone who was going to kill herself or someone else because she hadn't completely healed herself.
This charade played on for months. Now out of rehab, she hooked up with some guy who I envisioned treated her like shit, and she "vowed" that she was not in love with him, but she was not leaving him anytime soon.
This killed me.
She said she loved me, but she transplanted herself 1,000 miles away and was now living with a guy she didn't love and had no intentions of leaving him. Fast forward a few months of our "pen pal" relationship, and now she's going to be back in the area for some family function and she wants to see me. Now here I am being a little cautious and a little excited at the same time. My Raquel is coming to see me, and now I can assess her progress as a person for myself in person.
But the meeting is strained. She's a little distant, she's a little restrained in her conversation and I'm like a little kid inside just to be sitting with her. We end up back at her family's house, alone, and we're talking and I end up kissing her. She shares her tongue with me and I eagerly and gladly accept it. But that is short lived as her mom walks in and disrupts my time with my Raquel. I guess I gotta go now.
And after I left, she left, back to her live-in who indeed treated her like shit, forcing her to live in a locked bedroom all day every day. She tells me she is safe, but I don't believe her. And now I'm being forced to make the decision to leave everything I have to be with her, a woman I've spent 4 hours with in the last 2 Β½ years! She gets the picture and bam! She moves in with another guy!! Out of the blue!! As one of my friends put it, she's just sucking some guy's dick to keep a roof over her head. Well then so be it!! Now for my revenge!!
I have this dream....one where Raquel calls me after months of ignored emails and phone calls trying to get her to rethink our relationship (one friend kept asking me why I would want her back after leaving me and ignoring me, and I replied: "Because I love her so very much!"). Raquel explains that her latest boyfriend came home drunk one night and after trying to rape her in their own bed, he finally gave up and resorted to beating the shit out of her. Two black eyes, a broken nose and a broken wrist was what it took to call me and tell me she was coming back to this area and she missed me!! She missed me!!
After countless emails ignored and numerous phone calls dumped into voice mail only to be erased later on and now she misses me. Well, I missed her too.
So I tell her we need to meet. She asked about my wife, but we have already separated because I can't live with someone who does not love me. She sounds excited, that maybe there's a new roof over her head in her immediate future.
We agree she is to come over to my new apartment, but imagine my surprise when she actually shows up at my front door with three suitcases and two cat carriers and an $87.00 cab fare! I ask her what's all this but she blows the question off by jumping into my arms and sobbing uncontrollably.
"I'm so sorry I ever doubted your love for me, but I'm here to tell you that I plan to make up for all the lost time between us. You were right, we WERE meant to be together, and I'm hoping...praying that you'll forgive me and tell me that you still love me. Please?"
I step over to the dining room table and pick up my glass of wine and take a huge sip. I start thinking;Here's my chance! This little bitch jerked me around for years and NOW she's begging forgiveness.